Several of the program’s presenters expressed their discomfort when Donald Trump’s attorney emerged from one of the suits.
Moment of uneasiness in the American version of Mask Singer. Viewers of Wednesday night’s episode discovered that Rudy Giuliani, a controversial political figure close to Donald Trump, was hiding under the feather toy’s costume. Community actor Ken Jeong, who is serving as an investigator for the program, left the set a few minutes later.
Mask Singer is a game show featuring masked celebrities. The public and investigators must guess their identities from clues provided each week. At the end of each number, one of the participants takes off their mask. Rudy Giuliani’s appearance surprised all interviewers:
“I definitely never would have thought that,” said singer Robin Thicke with a sheepish smile. “Is that Robert Duvall?” asked former Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Sherzinger, and her pal Ken Jeong, stunned, replied, “No…that’s not Robert Duvall.”
“This surprises us all”
“With all the controversy surrounding you, it surprises us all that you’re here on Mask Singer,” host Nick Cannon told him. “Me too!” Rudy Giuliani replied before adding:
“I think the main reason is that I just had a granddaughter, Grace. I want her to try everything, even things that don’t look like you and seem unlikely.”
He then kicked off with a rendition of American rock standard Bad To The Bone (literally, “to the bone”) as the credits rolled on screen.” Then Ken Jeong blew the set out.
Controversial figure
Rudy Giuliani has found himself at the center of several controversies in recent years. The former mayor of New York was framed by actor Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat 2, out October 2020. In a hidden camera sequence, the politician was filmed with his hand in his pants in the company of an allegedly underage woman (actually 24 years old). year-old actress Maria Balakova). “I tucked my shirt back into my pants after removing the recording device,” he defended in a tweet.
The following month, days after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election, Rudy Giuliani took the floor to denounce a “decrepit and corrupt democratic apparatus,” fueling the conspiracy theory that the election was rigged. That stance earned him a subpoena last February before the parliamentary commission investigating the attack on the Capitol.